News & Blog

Along with Django 1.2.1, Satchmo 0.9.1 was released yesterday as well:

http://www.satchmoproject.com/blog/2010/may/24/satchmo-0-9-1-release/

Just put it in the “Notes” field when you place your order, and we’ll install it for you, along w8ith whatever other custom Django plugins you need.

j

Django 1.2.1 is now available for ordering here at Libre Hosting.

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/may/24/121/

Simply select “Django 1.2.1″ from the dropdowns when you place your order –

Your VM will be set up to sync to trunk, to allow you to keep up-to-date – easiest way to keep up on point releases and bugfixes.

As always, Satchmo, and any other Django plugins you prefer, are available on request – just put your preferences in the “Notes” field when you place your order.

j

Development Version

We are proud to announce that we now support and can install the latest trunk-version (0.9) of Satchmo, installed from Mercurial (aka “hg” – get it?!).

Since it’s installed directly from the VCS, and symlinked into the python path, this allows for updates to the source tree anytime – in other words, instant upgrades (and downgrade, if a problem is encountered!) anytime (depending on your VCS).

Django, and other plugins, are installed this same way, as always – we have done it this way since 2007.

Here is a quick intro on how it’s done – just indicate you want us to install Satchmo in the “notes” field when you place your order, and we’ll get it done for you.

j

We are pleased to announce that we now have three Django versions available for hosting in any of our plans –

• Django 1.1 trunk – the prerelease, currently targeted for March 2009.
• Django 1.02 – the current “stable” release
• Django 0.96.3 – the legacy “Pre-1.0” release, which is still supported

Notes:

1. Although 1.1 is not yet officially released, trunk is always pretty stable – as projects go, the Django team can be relied upon to keep the trunk tree extremely reliable – we run trunk in production, for example.  For new projects, we recommend this option.
2. Legacy 0.96.3 is the last release before the 1.0 release which broke backward compatibility – it includes the older admin interface (with nested Admin classes), and the older Signals implementation – which provide a migration hurdle for many production environments – we have several customers and friends still running 0.96.3 until they address these migration issues.  We can also help with this, if you need us.
3. The official released version, 1.02, is stable, and well-tested.  We recommend this option for those conservative production environments that have full-blown separated test/staging and developent envoironments as well.

As always, if you need a specific legacy version (or a specific trunk svn release for that matter, or release-by-date) we will be happy to install it from svn on request, just plce your request in the “notes” field when you place your order.

We will also happily install any Django packages you desire, as well, on request – try the lists at Django Pluggables and Django Search. Google Code also has a good number of Django-related projects hosted there.

And remember, if you need design, development, or site setup assistance, we are always here to help.

j

OK, after some serious work and refactoring, we are now up and running on Django 1.0b and Satchmo 0.8pre, as of today –

The new shop and Django features are quite impressive, and include many things we used to have to do ourselves.

You will see us gradually putting our Satchmo eCommerce ‘shop’ back together over the next few weeks to be back up to full functionality.

As always, you may reach us for sales and support via email.

j

Please pardon our dust (please order by email or phone!) as we reimplement portions of our eCommerce engine to use the new updated Satchmo Release, 0.7 (we are using SVN trunk).

Previously, we were on the Satchmo 0.6 release (and we implemented the TrustCommerce payment engine for the project, for that release).

We hope to have the eCommerce signup capability back up and fully functional within a short time.

In the meantime, we can accept your orders and support emails through our usual email and phone channels.

Joe

Libre Hosters,

In addition to our usual Django vMachine instances, We now have a vMachine of Django’s Satchmo eCommerce engine available –

In keeping with our commitment to provide the latest ready-to-roll Django hosting, we now offer this  vm with Satchmo preconfigured.

This therefore includes:

• trml2pdf – http://paketler.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/trml2pdf.html
• comment-utils – http://code.google.com/p/django-comment-utils
• Postgres 8.x (the latest available when you sign up, 8.2, 8.3, +) – http://www.postgresql.org/docs
• MySQL 5.x (the latest available when you sign up, 8.2, 8.3, +) – http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/python
• SQLite3  – http://www.sqlite.org/changes.html
• Any other DB available on request

Just indicate your preferred Database and any other packages you’d like installed in the “Custom Notes” field when you place your order.

Note that we run our shop on Satchmo and Django (and the Blog on WordPress).

j